Portal “Learn Moscow has prepared a new informative online quest to June 12 — “My address — Russia”.
the virtual games offer you to test your knowledge on the attractions of his native country. Portal users have to answer in what Russian cities, besides the capital, you can see the Kremlin Palace of Catherine the great and a fountain similar to the famous ensemble “Friendship of peoples” at ENEA.
“a New quest of the portal “Learn Moscow” will introduce users to the attractions of the capital, the analogues of which are in other Russian cities. Using online quiz we want to show that, despite distance and time zones, different climatic zones and natural conditions, languages and customs, we are all inhabitants of one great country and in each region you can find places and monuments that bring us together and which is interesting to watch”, — said the curator of it projects in the sphere of culture and tourism of the Department of information technology of Moscow Sergey Sacral.
Opens the online quest question about the heart of our country — the Moscow Kremlin. The main feature of the architectural ensemble is the firming complex, consisting of walls in the shape of a triangle with 20 towers. There are numerous religious and secular buildings — the cathedrals, palaces and administrative buildings of different eras. Located on the territory of the Kremlin Church of the Nativity of the virgin in the Vestibule is one of the oldest monuments extant. It was built in 1393-1394, by order of the widow of Dmitry Donskoy Princess Evdokia, presumably in memory of the battle of Kulikovo (1380). But the Moscow Kremlin is not only in Russia. Where else erected such structures, it is necessary to answer the quest participants.
Another question online quiz for metro. Today, subway is in seven Russian cities — Moscow, Saint-Petersburg, Kazan, Yekaterinburg, Nizhny Novgorod, Novosibirsk and Samara. The Moscow metro opened on may 15, 1935. Most of the names of metro stations in all cities of the country again, but there is at least one that can be found only in Moscow. The user is prompted to choose one of five options.
Another task is devoted to the Alexander garden, whose territory stretches along the Western wall of the Kremlin from the street Bolshaya Nikitskaya, ulitsa Vozdvizhenka and Znamenka. Until the XVIII century in its place was a river of Neglin��I, famous for fishing. On its banks the citizens also organized festivities. After the Patriotic war of 1812, Emperor Alexander I ordered the river to hide under the earth and on the vacant place to plant a garden, which later, in 1856 after the coronation of Alexander II, received the name “Alexander.” The players have to determine the name of the Russian city in which, too, can stroll through the Park of the same name.
the Construction of seven Stalinist skyscrapers completed in Moscow in 1957. They are a shining example of Stalin’s Empire in the capital’s architecture. Similar buildings are found in new York, Riga, Warsaw, Bucharest and Kiev. And when three Russian cities you can find houses built in a similar style, you need to match the participants of the quest. Also the users have to answer where the stations are twins, as it is now called the area of Chinese Volunteers and what the street name is found in Russia often. After answering all the questions, players will be able to see your results and share them on their pages in social networks.
Russia Day is an annual public holiday. It is celebrated since 1992 on the day of Declaration of sovereignty of the RSFSR on June 12. Despite the fact that all cultural institutions are closed until June 16, in Moscow on this day, citizens are waited by festive online program. For example, the museums invite the public to participate in master classes, listen to concerts and lectures about art, science and fashion. Special events for the Day Russia has prepared and on the online sites of the Soviet era. There will be video tours, contests and exhibitions. And the city’s parks on June 12 will hold for the Internet user contests and educational quests.
Portal “Learn Moscow” is a joint project of the city government departments of information technology, culture, cultural heritage, education and science. Interactive guide to the city attractions contains descriptions of more than two thousand buildings and structures, 644 monuments, museums 328, 196 territories, data on 208 historical figures 128 and thematic trails. Users also available the same application for smartphones that you can download in the App Store and Google Play.
Staying at home, you can take a virtual ride on the roofs of famous historical buildings or explore the interior of old houses, manors, hotels and palaces.
For fans of quizzes on the portal collected 63 cognitive quest. Among them, the online quest seat��, where the shooting took place the famous Soviet comedies. Answering 10 questions a virtual game, users will learn where she studied the heroine of the film “Come tomorrow” Frosya Burlakova and what street admired Ivan the terrible from the balcony of flats in one of the scenes of the film “Ivan Vasilyevich changes profession.”
Recently the portal “Learn Moscow” joined cycles of excursions and activities project #Mosqueteros. Users can now pass the online quests, developed on the basis of the city’s urban project. And to the 85th anniversary of the Moscow subway appeared on the site three virtual quest devoted to the construction of the subway in the 1930s, its importance for the city and its inhabitants during the great Patriotic war and the unique architecture of some stations.
